Student suspended from St Edmund’s College
for having a ’dangerous’ opinion (Canberra
Times) June 1 - A 17-year-old who tried to organise a student strike on Friday over
changes to St Edmund’s College including to its crest, the uniform and,
potentially, song has been suspended indefinitely after the headmaster
allegedly said his presence at the school would be "too dangerous".

My conservative school uniform does not
protect me(Sydney Morning
Herald) June 1 – (Opinion: Jacqueline Rousselot ) Picture this: a row of girls aged 12
to 18, kneeling before a male teacher who inspects the hems of their dresses to
make sure they touch the ground, justifying it as "school policy" and
for "personal safety".

Religious
Violence

’Bomb violence with mercy’: anti-terror
ad goes viral in Middle East (The
Guardian, Australia) May 30 - A Ramadan TV ad by a Middle Eastern telecommunications company in
which victims of terrorism confront a suicide bomber and urge society to “bomb
violence with mercy” has provoked a heated debate in the region, with some
praising its attempt to tackle extremism and others criticising it for using
victims of bombings and a simplistic portrayal of terrorists.

’The devil’s after our kids’: Margaret
Court’s second serve (The Age,
Melbourne) June 1 - Far from modifying her denouncement of gay marriage, tennis champion
Margaret Court has broadened it, saying that it was causing huge problems in
countries where it was legalised, that homosexuality was an ungodly "lust
for the flesh" and that LGBT tendencies in young people were "all the
devil".

Also:
Note to Margaret Court: the Bible isn’t
meant to be read that literally(ABC
News) June 3 – (Opinion: Robyn J Whitaker, Trinity College) Margaret Court is wrong
to claim marriage is "a union between a man and a woman as stated in the
Bible", as she did in her open letter to Qantas, or that a "biblical
view" of marriage is between one man and one woman, as she did on Channel
Ten’s The Project last week.

Also:
Margaret Court: astounding champion who
found God and lost the respect of a nation (The Guardian, Australia) June 3 – (Opinion: Russell Jackson) Margaret Court was the most glittering
example of Australia’s domination of world tennis in the 1960s and 70s – a
prolonged period of supremacy in which a murderer’s row of superstar players
with iconic, instructive nicknames like Rocket, Muscles and Newk took all
before them.

Why I won’t be giving to the Salvos Appeal(Sydney Morning
Herald) June 2 – (Opinion: Garry Linnell) Welcome to the battlefront on this Sunday
afternoon. For once the sun is shining down on the good Lord’s soldiers as the
war against Satan rages on.